High Road Strategy Center

Publications by Joel Rogers

  • Helper, S., G. Herrigel, D. Luria, J. Rogers, M. Vidal, J. Whitford, H. Wial, and E. Wiarda. Full-Utilization Learning Lean in Component Manufacturing: A New Industrial Model for Mature Regions, & Labor’s Stake in Its Success. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies, 2005.

    A Working Paper and project, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies.
    The Industry Studies program, launched in 1990 and completed in 2010, aimed to promote high quality scholarship about particular industries through encouraging close interaction between academics and industry practitioners.

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  • Borosage, R., and J. Rogers. Both An Imperative and An Opportunity. South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 2005, p. 23A.

    The Energy Bill from the George W. Bush era caters to the special interests of oil companies and does not reduce dependence on foreign oil. New energy for America requires investments in renewable energies and job openings in renewable energy sector as well as incentives for states and municipalities who are already taking action on environmental sustainability.

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  • Rogers, J. Cities: The Vital Core. Vol. 280, The Nation, 2005, pp. 20-22.
    From The Nation, June 20, 2005.
    Cities are the most productive and most sustainable centers of the US economy, the most vital and generous centers of our culture and, potentially, the most democratic and forward-looking of our many units of government. They have been neglected in terms of their impact on the economy (the metropolitan area constitutes about 80% of the US population), in their power to pioneer equality (the metro core is where different races coincide, where upper and middle classes live, where most research and education institution are located, where new commerce and innovation begins), in that their sheer size and weight make metro regions a point of leverage in the national economy (here begins “high road” policies).
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  • Rogers, J. “An Industrial Policy That Works”. Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 48, no. 6, 2005, pp. 6-16.
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  • Rogers, J. “The Delphi Oracle”. The Nation, Vol. 281, 2005, pp. 25-26.
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  • Rogers, J. A Step for Voting Reform. no. 280, The Nation, 2005, pp. 4-5.
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  • Dresser, L., and J. Rogers. State of Working Wisconsin 2004. COWS, 2004.

    The State of Working Wisconsin offers an analysis of unemployment and underemployment in the state.
    Documents below offer Full Report and Executive Summary.

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  • Bernhardt, A., and J. Rogers. Taking the High Road in Milwaukee: The Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership. Vol. 5, no. 3, Working USA, 2004, pp. 109-30.

    Wisconsin has been home to a series of interrelated partnerships between labor and employers that have built institutions to support high-road business practice around quality, worker training, innovation, and cooperation. COWS has been pivotal in these experiments.

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  • Rogers, J. “Labor Politics in an Age of Fear”. The Future of Labor Unions: Organized Labor in the 21st Century, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 2004, pp. 187-98.

    Chapter 8 in editors Julius G. Getman and Ray Marshall’s The Future of Labor Unions: Organized Labor in the 21st Century.
    Why progressives in America, especially included in the labor force, are politically week during the George W. Bush. era. The US labor force carries much weight and can inevitably propel the move from the “low road” to the “high road” of economic prosperity.

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  • Rogers, J. Devolve This!. Vol. 279, The Nation, 2004, pp. 20-28.
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